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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always jealous of people who have true passion. Jealous here mostly means "frightened." So, when I found out there were people at about 100 theaters around the U.S. who have already been waiting in line for weeks to buy tickets for Episode 1--The Phantom Menace, I had to meet them. Weren't they already as sick of the movie as I was? Did they not know there was a Star Wars cookbook out that had a recipe for "Boba Fett-uccine"? How could they listen to George Lucas tell yet another interviewer that although we have progressed technologically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spearheading the Star Wars Backlash | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...endurance is reflected not only in his company member's loyalty, but in his own words, "just go into the rehearsal studio and try to create something that I won't mind seeing over and over again," say Taylor. Watching a true genius at work can make one jealous of the company members that are lucky to work with...

Author: By Angela Lin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dancing Stands for Life | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...stands over her laundry in a wooden room in rural Tennessee. Lloyd sits in a chair near her, shivering under his blanket, devoured by a disease he is ashamed of and afraid to face. There is a perpetual tension between the two; Lloyd is sexually crippled and jealous of Mae, who has been seduced by an unbearable desire to educate herself. Indeed, at the school where she goes to learn rudimentary reading and mathematics, she has met an advanced reader named Henry, and she is falling in love...

Author: By Jerome L. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mud: The Best Plays are Hard to Find | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...readily acknowledge that we have a handicap for dancing, and those of us who don't admit it are usually the ones most guilty of starting just one more round of the Electric Slide. "Close Quarters" made all of us rhythmless people grateful (and perhaps a wee bit jealous?) that dancing can look so much like, well, dancing...

Author: By Deirdre Mask, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vicarious Vibes Steam Pool House | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...What was the first record he ever bought? "The Aaron song by Captain Kangaroo." How hip, how irreverent. I'm very jealous. I check in with Josh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Fame in the Name | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

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